Parliamentary calls for activating the agricultural laws

Parliamentary calls for activating the agricultural laws

1/10/2016 

BAGHDAD - Shaima Rashid

confirmed to the Committee on Agriculture in Parliament that the agricultural sector is suffering a lot of difficulties and obstacles that prevent the advancement of its most prominent imported from all the neighboring countries products, which weighed on the Iraqi economy, as well as lack of support for farmers, as well as the non-application of agricultural laws ».

The Chairman of the Committee Parliamentary Agriculture Furat al-Tamimi told the "morning": that the agricultural sector is suffering a lot of problems and obstacles that prevent developed to be a tributary of the federal budget, notably the dumping policy of the Iraqi market at the moment.

"The most agricultural products imported from neighboring countries and thus This matter caused a lack of local product's ability to compete with imported especially as the high domestic production costs the fact that the farmer Iraqi is not supported by the government is competing with what is imported from abroad, "stressing that the agricultural sector can play a major role in supplying the general budget after it is the provision of support you need local agriculture.

"" I must first address the agricultural sector's problems and support the farmer financially and morally and apply tariffs and elimination of smuggling, gangs of corruption that are looking for a profit of neighboring countries in order to promote this sector law ", adding that" the agricultural sector got a great support from the government represented by amounts estimated agricultural initiative B2 billion since its inception to 2013 and support the loan 2 trillion submitted by the banking Bank for the agricultural sector but what is unfortunate is the lack of implementation of the projects where some of them had imagined and others used the money obtained within agricultural initiative without the agricultural sector.

"He called on Chairman of the Committee to" the agricultural sector support, especially that its own legislation, but the same problem in their application, including the Customs Tariff Act, calling for import covers the need of the market and supports the local product.

"For his part, said the Agriculture Committee member Abdul Hadi return to the agricultural sector suffers from many difficulties, notably the import and the lack of support for farmers.

He said the return of the "morning": "It is unfortunate that many of the governments that came to power since the fall of the former regime, and to this day not interested in the agricultural sector which could be an important source of maximizing the resources of the state.

"He added that" the suffering of the agricultural sector was a big throughout the past period, and when we got to the stage of the collapse of oil prices appeals launched by all sides to the development of this sector.

"He continued," We need a real and realistic look at this sector of the in order to raise the value of its imports and add them to imports of the budget by employing the capabilities and potential of the state to serve the farmers and their support financially and morally.

"He pointed to" the lack of a real tendency to service this sector over the past years, expressing the hope that there is in this sector interest and reliance on Iraqi minds in the success of the process of the advancement of this sector ", criticizing the" non-application of the laws that initiated the agricultural sector. "